Barack Obama has kept a tight lid on his years at Columbia. He hasn't been very forthcoming about his connections and associations with a number of radical individuals. Now, thanks to the disclosures of a prominent, lifelong Democratic politician from New York City- - -a borough president named Percy Sutton- - -who is so enamored with Obama he describes Obama as a "genius", we are gaining some insight into the background of Obama during his early adulthood. And particularly during those two secretive years at Columbia where he first met a wealthy Black Muslim benefactor with close ties to the Saudi Royal Family.

That man, Ken Timmerman at NewsMax reveals, was instrumental in getting Obama into Harvard Law School an in assisting Obama in funding his legal education. The benefactor: Dr. Khalid al-Mansour.

Mr. Sutton may have opened Pandora's Box, shedding light on frightening connections between radical muslims and the man who would be president.

The original story in NewsMax by Ken Timmerman:

How exactly did Barack Obama pay for his Harvard Law School education?The way the Obama campaign has answered the question was simply hard work and student loans.But new questions have been raised about Obama’s student loans and Obama’s ties to a radical Muslim activist who reportedly was raising money for Obama’s Harvard studies during the years 1988 to 1991.The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was “raising money” for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School.In the interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist who . . . .Read more Timmerchttp://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/obama_harvard_/2008/09/23/133199.html

who was a “mentor” to the founders of the Black Panther party at the time the party was founded in the early 1960s.Sutton described al-Mansour as advisor to “one of the world’s richest men,” Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.Prince Alwaleed catapulted to fame in the United States after the September 11 attacks, when New York mayor Rudy Guiliani refused his $10 million check to help rebuild Manhattan, because the Saudi prince hinted publicly that America’s pro-Israel policies were to blame for the attacks.